NOTE ON LYSAMACHIA STRICTA. 



lie plums, on account of its never having failed to bear a full crop, and its maturing 

 its fruit perfectly. I admit that it is not so finely flavored as the Washington." 



Our own opinion of this plum is, that it is simply a good fruit, not of high flavor, but 

 so hu-gc, handsome and productive, that it will become a favorite for market cultivation. 



Fruit very large, roundish oval, regularly formed, with an obscure suture running half 

 round, and terminating at the top in a small scarred point— the remains of the old style. 

 Skin smooth, deep golden yellow, slightly marbled with greenish yellow. Stalk unusual- 

 ly long, moderately stout, set in a very small shallow cavity— the whole of that end of 

 the fruit being rather flattened. Flesh pale yellow, moderately juicy, sweet and good, 

 though not of high flavor. It parts freely from the stone, -which is ovate, light colored, 

 and small for so large a fruit. Branches nearly smooth, leaves large and long, with long 

 foot-stalks. Ripens the first week in September. 



IV. The Townsend Apple. One of the most delicious late summer and early autumn 

 apples. It has borne abundantly in our own garden, and has not, so far as we are aware, 

 yet been described. Grafts were sent to us some years ago under this name, by a friend 

 in Pennsylvania, as having been 

 taken from a tree which sprung 

 up on the site of an Indian clear- 

 ing in that state. To our own 

 taste, it has no superior among 

 tender, delicate dessert apples 

 of its season. 



Fruit of medium size, round- 

 ish and usually flattened, smooth 

 and regularly formed. Skin 

 very pale yellow, splashed and 

 streaked with purple-red, and 

 covered with a dense white 

 bloom, (like the Astrachau.) 

 Stalk nearly an inch long, slen- 

 der, inserted in a deep cavity; 

 calyx wooly, set in a basin of 



The Toicnsend Apple. 



moderate depth. Flesh white, fine-grained, remarkably tender, and of very mild and 

 agreeable sub-acid flavor. Tree, a moderately luxuriant grower and abundant bearer. 

 Season, middle of August to middle of September. 



NOTE ON LYSAMACHIA STRICTA. 



BY A. AV. CORSON, PA. 



About twenty years ago I found some specimens of Lysamachia stricta on the banks 

 of the Schuylkill, and not having before seen it in Pennsylvania, I took them up and plant- 

 ed them in my garden, where they flourished and died Mithout producing seed. I regret- 

 cd the loss, but was surprised the following year to find several plants of the same 

 kind, upon which, when examining them for seed, I found none, but observed a number 

 of small bulbs formed in the axils of the leaves, which at the death of the plants fell to the 

 round and continued to grow through the winter, and rooting in the soil produced plants 

 next season. This manner of reproduction from the fallen bulbs has been continued 



